For Gardy Boiteux, it was a typical Tuesday afternoon at home, that day on Jan. 12, 2010. It was a few minutes before 5 p.m. He was doing homework. His mother prepared supper in the kitchen.

"Then the house was shaking," he said.

Boiteux and his mother ran out of the house where they lived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He said they were outside no more than 15 or 20 seconds when the building collapsed. There were four other people living in the house. All of them died.

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